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Oracle WebCenter Sites and Siteminder

Posted by N'Dèye Gnagna Marianne on Wednesday, July 5, 2017 - 10:39 Data Security, Development, Web Experience Management WCS, WEM, WebCenter Sites, Siteminder, Vanity URL Pattern, 11g

We are far from the days when logging in was as easily implemented as a username, password, and cgi script in between your user’s anonymous and logged-in states. Today’s world is ruled by powerful web access management softwares that not only securely keep intruders from accessing your most secure pages but also allows for a user management system hooked up to your LDAP environment. Among them: HP’s IceWall SSO, IAM (Identity and Access Management), and CA Siteminder. Let’s focus on the latter.

 

Per their website, CA Siteminder promises to...

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Enhance your WCS Dashboard Widgets with D3.js

Posted by David Chesebro on Thursday, November 17, 2016 - 10:24 Cool Tools Oracle WebCenter Sites, Customizations, contributor UI, widget, D3, Javascript, Development, 11g, 12c

As far back as I can remember, WebCenter Sites' Contributor UI dashboard widgets have been simple HTML tables full of text. Behold, D3.js, a JavaScript library that helps "bring your data to life" and easily create animated graphics. 

A good use case for this is the two dashboard widgets that come with Function1's LingoTek inside WebCenter Sites product (pictured below), which simply show some numbers about recent activity between WCS and Lingotek.

 

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WebCenter Sites Dojo Tips & Tricks

Posted by David Chesebro on Tuesday, August 30, 2016 - 13:57 Cool Tools Oracle WebCenter Sites, 11.1.1.8.0, 11g, dojo, contributor UI, Customizations, UI Customize, Development

WebCenter Sites allows you to customize the UI in many ways. Much of the UI is rendered using Dojo, but very little of WCS's Dojo APIs are documented. Here are a few simple Dojo code snippets that may be of use to you:

Display Info, Warning, or Error messages

The WebCenter Sites developer guide describes how to display an "info" message (the green message pictured above), but you can also display warning (yellow) and error (red) messages:

var view = SitesApp.getActiveView(); // the active view (AKA the current tab)
view.info("OK Message.");            // display...
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How to Create Custom Content Tabs in the Contributor UI

Posted by Mike Field on Tuesday, November 17, 2015 - 09:37 Web Experience Management WCS, owcs, WebCenter Sites, 11g, 11.1.1.8.0, customization, contributor UI

Applies To

OracleWebCenter Sites 11g (version 11.1.1.8.0)

 

Introduction

Often our flex assets have quite a few attributes which all end up on the same "Content" tab in the Contributor UI. The tab ends up being inconveniently long and the attributes are disorganized.

By customizing some UI elements, we can add new tabs to the content entry forms like in the image above (notice the new "Article Metadata" tab).

This blog post describes how to create these new tabs.

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